The F2F Tour has stopped in Lethbridge, Alberta twice now — but remarkably we’ve only had one champion. This past weekend Jozef Telecki went back-to-back as he claimed his second Lethbridge trophy in the Modern format.

Jozef was able to take down our previous event in Lethbridge using the power of Dredge prior to the banning of [Card]Faithless Looting[/Card]. But now, with the busted graveyard deck neutered, Telecki was able to triumph with a much more interactive deck — Snow Control. From what I can tell this looks to be a brew that took down our event on Saturday and both Telecki and another Top 8 competitor in Tom Cairns both played it to incredible finishes. 

These snow decks have popped up here and there since the printing of [Card]Arcum’s Astrolabe[/Card] in Modern Horizons and they have very similar counterparts in the Legacy format that are tied together with the format’s powerful cantrips. It seems like Telecki and Cairns may have cracked the formula to make it work in Modern as well. 

He triumphed over Taylor Kitson and his Eldrazi & Taxes deck in the finals.

Joining them in the Top 8 was Cairns playing the exact same archetype as Telecki like I said, Thomas Loraas and Jason Racine both playing Eldrazi Tron even with the absence of [Card]Mycosynth Lattice[/Card], Ivan James Mararaeg playing Amulet Titan and Mason Scharback on the Dimir Whirza deck that Face to Face Games writer Eli Kassis has popularized lately. 

Honestly, I think the results from Lethbridge are pretty incredible. It’s so rare that you see a completely new deck like this take down an entire tournament, but here we had TWO copies of it in the Top 8 and it resulted in Telecki’s second consecutive Lethbridge championship. What an incredible story. 

These Snow decks do seem to have some legs to them. Obviously getting to play a bunch of colours offers you some of the best spells that the format has to offer and the addition of [Card]Wrenn and Six[/Card] to the format really helps you tie both your early game and your mana development together. They also had a few copies of [Card]Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath[/Card] from Theros Beyond Death to completely take-over the board and grind out value. This deck is a work of art!

Congratulations to Jozef Telecki and to the rest of the Top 8 on their outstanding performances this past weekend. Before I leave you for the week, I’d like to also extend a special thank you to both our judge staff and our sponsor Ultimate Guard for helping us put on a great event.

The next stop on the F2F Tour is coming up this Saturday in both Toronto, Ontario where we’ll be hosting our first Team Trios event of the year and Quebec City, where we’ll be hosting a Modern event. Make sure to pre-register for Quebec City HERE and Toronto HERE and we’ll see you on the battlefield!

[Deck Title= First Place, Four-Colour Snow – Jozef Telecki]
[Creatures]
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
1 Abominable Treefolk
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Arcum’s Astrolabe
4 Assassin’s Trophy
4 Drown in the Loch
4 Wrenn and Six
4 Dead of Winter
3 Force of Negation
1 Kologhan’s Command
1 The Royal Scions
1 Cryptic Command
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Fabled Passage
4 Field of Ruin
1 Lonely Sandbar
4 Prismatic Vista
3 Snow-covered Forest
4 Snow-covered Island
1 Snow-covered Mountain
2 Snow-covered Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Fatal Push
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Weather the Storm
2 Ashiok, Dream Render
1 Force of Negation
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Leyline of the Void
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Eldrazi & Taxes – Taylor Kitson]
[Creatures]
2 Charming Prince
4 Eldrazi Displacer
3 Flickerwisp
4 Giver of Runes
4 Leonin Arbiter
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Wasteland Strangler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Path to Exile
4 Aether Vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Concealed Courtyard
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Plains
1 Shambling Vent
2 Silent Clearing
1 Snow-covered Swamp
1 Snow-covered Plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Kor Firewalker
2 Leonin Relic-Warder
2 Mirran Crusader
4 Plague Engineer
3 Rest in Peace
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Eldrazi Tron – Thomas Loraas]
[Creatures]
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Walking Ballista
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Warping Wail
2 Ugin, the Ineffable
1 Sorcerous Spyglass
4 Expedition Map
4 Karn, the Great Creator
2 All is Dust
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Dismember
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Blast Zone
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Scavenger Grounds
1 Tectonic Edge
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
2 Wastes
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Liquidmetal Coating
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
1 Sorcerous Spyglass
2 Spatial Contortion
1 Sundering Titan
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Torpor Orb
1 Walking Ballista
1 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Four-Colour Snow – Tom Cairns]
[Creatures]
2 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
1 Abominable Treefolk
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
2 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Arcum’s Astrolabe
4 Assassin’s Trophy
4 Drown in the Loch
4 Wrenn and Six
4 Dead of Winter
3 Force of Negation
1 Kologhan’s Command
1 The Royal Scions
1 Cryptic Command
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Fabled Passage
4 Field of Ruin
1 Lonely Sandbar
4 Prismatic Vista
3 Snow-covered Forest
4 Snow-covered Island
1 Snow-covered Mountain
2 Snow-covered Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Fatal Push
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Weather the Storm
2 Ashiok, Dream Render
1 Force of Negation
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Leyline of the Void
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Amulet Titan – Ivan James Macaraeg
]
[Creatures]
4 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
4 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
4 Primeval Titan
4 Sakura-Tribe Scout
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Once Upon a Time
1 Pact of Negation
4 Summoner’s Pact
4 Amulet of Vigor
1 Engineered Explosives
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Breeding Pool
4 Castle Garenbrig
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Field of the Dead
2 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Gruul Turf
1 Hanweir Battlements
1 Radiant Fountain
4 Simic Growth Chamber
2 Snow Covered Forest
2 Tolaria West
2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1 Vesuva
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Aether Gust
3 Beast Within
1 Dismember
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Field of the Dead
2 Force of Vigor
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Tormod’s Crypt
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Dredge – Connor Davies]
[Creatures]
3 Merchant of the Vale
4 Nacromoeba
4 Bloodghast
4 Prized Amalgam
2 Ox of Agonas
4 Stinkweed Imp
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Life of the Loam
2 Golgari Thug
1 Darkblast
1 Conflagrate
4 Cathartic Reunion
4 Shriekhorn
4 Creeping Chill
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Wooded Foothills
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Stomping Ground
2 Blood Crypt
2 Mountain
3 Copperline Gorge
1 Dakmor Salvage
1 Forgotten Cave
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Thoughtseize
4 Nature’s Claim
3 Lightning Axe
2 Magus of the Moon
1 Blast Zone
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Conflagrate
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Eldrazi Tron – Jason Racine]
[Creatures]
3 Walking Ballista
3 Matter Reshaper
4 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Reality Smasher
2 Endbringer
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Ugin, the Ineffable
1 Karn Liberated
2 All is Dust
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
2 Warping Wail
1 Spatial Contortion
1 Mind Stone
1 Dismember
4 Karn, the Great Creator
4 Expedition Map
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
4 Eldrazi Temple
2 Blast Zone
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Buried Ruin
2 Wastes
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Orbs of Warding
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Walking Ballista
1 Mystic Forge
1 Liquidmetal Coating
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Batterskull
1 Shadowspear
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Dimir Whirza – Mason Scharback]
[Creatures]
4 Urza, Lord High Artificier
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Fatal Push
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Thoughtseize
1 Despise
1 Drown in the Loch
3 Archmage’s Charm
3 Whir of Invention
2 Cryptic Command
4 Mishra’s Bauble
4 Arcum’s Astrolabe
1 Nihil’s Spellbomb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sword of the Meek
2 Thopter Foundry
2 Talisman of Domminance
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Field of Ruin
1 Flooded Strand
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Mystic Sanctuary
3 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
5 Snow-covered Island
1 Snow-covered Swamp
2 Watery Grave
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Get
3 Ashiok, Dream Render
3 Aether Gust
1 Battle of the Bridge
1 Collective Brutality
2 Dead of Winter
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Damping Sphere
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]